Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growing up comfortably in the '90s, not the least bit incompatible with varsity athletics, the spring musical or advanced-placement chemistry. After all, most of the kids at New Trier will go on to succeed, just as their parents did. The fact that they have tried pot won't cancel out the perks of good breeding and unbounded opportunity...
...Newt Gingrich, instructed his newfound acolytes to attend a conference at the ultra-conservative Brookings Institution in Baltimore instead. The dozen or so newly-elected Democrats--too paltry for their gathering to be called a convention--simply went without the usual K-School information session as Harvard decided to cancel an event that had already been criticized as too liberal...
...Wild Bill" Clay was called a militant when he went to Congress 28 years ago. The first African-American legislator from Missouri, he is still an energetic Democrat: he wanted to cancel the stamp honoring Richard Nixon, and is a persistent critic of Contract with America legislation. A friend of labor and sponsor of the Family and Medical Leave Act, Clay, who survived the 1992 disclosure of 328 House bank overdrafts, still seems solid...
...three-member commission decides that club personnel acted improperly, they can "cancel, suspend, revoke or further condition" all of the licenses held by Cranston Inc., Scali said
...that question before images of the battered and dying and you risk seeming indifferent to grief. But not to ask it opens the way to aesthetic blackmail, allowing the fact of suffering to cancel your doubts about the pictures that convey it. Or try to. Goldin has felt the blows of the past decade or so as hard as anybody. You wish sometimes that her work were as acute as her pain...